To
say 2005 has been a busy year for us would be a huge understatement! While 2004 marked
the debut of JTA to the World Wide Web, 2005 marked its explosive expansion! To all you readers
who have tuned in day after day, you got to see firsthand how we slowly expanded
from a small Visual Guide-only site to a full, content-rich Star Wars site.
Our main focus will always be first and foremost to provide richly detailed Visual
Guides of all your favorite Star Wars toys and collectibles. This is evident
in the fact that this year alone, we have brought to you 780 new Visual Guides! Covering everything from the vintage line all the way through to the new Saga
Collection line. We have pushed our total to more than 2000 Guides! We fully intend
to out-do ourselves in 2006, so stay tuned!

Now, let's take a look back and see what
JTA has been involved in in 2005!

Visual Guides
As mentioned above, Visual Guides are our bread and butter. We spend many hours putting
together detailed guides so fans can have a place to check out the newly released
figures, or put together missing pieces in their collection. Back in March,
we started running daily Visual Guide updates, bringing new guides to the site each
and every day! We continued that all the way through the end of the year, racking
up a total of 780 Guides! The new ROTS line has kept
us extremely busy, and that paid off with its completion. Even with the hundreds
of Guides we made for ROTS products, we still produced hundreds more for many of the other lines.
Back in August, we also started making a hard push to complete another popular line: POTF2. To date, we have added more than 100 new Guides to the POTF2
section.

Event Coverage
No doubt about it, 2005 hosted some of the biggest events in Star Wars history,
this being the year featureing featuring the last theatrical release of a Star
Wars movie.
It started off with a bang at Toy Fair,
continued to boil at Celebration
III, and finished up in
San Diego with Comic Con. JTA was at each and
every event, filling our pages with pictures and news for those who could not attend.
Europe even got involved as Pete and Joris attended
the annual FACTS convention in Belgium, bringing
more Star
Wars goodness from across the pond!

The Star Wars Experience
Earlier in the year, we got word that one of our closest affiliates, BeJedi.com,
was closing its virtual doors. Fortunately, Joris was
not completely ready to throw in the towel and agreed to come join the JTA team!
He brought with him a very nice feature he liked to call Star
Wars Experience. Covering everything Star
Wars,
we took this feature and ran with it! While we added new experiences this year, Joris archived
experiences of the past. He brought with him FACTS coverage from years past, and
a nice little sand sculpture festival that
had many Star
Wars sculptures front and
center. Aside from our key event coverage, we also added some fan events from around
country, including yearly socials from the Kentucky and OhioStar
Wars collecting
clubs, a Star Wars Disney
weekend, and a very cool Star Wars art exhibit from
across the globe: The
Art of Star Wars Exhibition in Singapore.
So, sit back, relax and start enjoying the Star Wars
Experience!

Features
As if our plates weren't full enough with all of that, we just couldn't stop there!
We added three brand new features to the archives: Collector's
Room, Customs Corner,
and some very detailed toy reviews. Our collections and customs
pages feature your very own collections and customs, for the entire world
to see. New staff member Sal offers
his very objective and detailed reviews of new figures. I think you will find his
reviews very helpful if you just can't decide whether or not to buy that specific
toy. So, if you are interested in making some custom figures, need ideas on how to
display some of your collectibles, or just want to see what everyone else is into,
stop by and check out these sections!

Another small feature we added
to each and every page is a tiny thing we like to call Feature Guide. At the
top left of every page you visit you will see a small thumbnail highlighting guides
from the past. Randomly selected from our archives, this lets you get a glimpse of
guides across every line of Star Wars, from vintage to modern. Who knows,
you just might come across a guide from a collectible you didn't know existed! So,
be sure to click on the feature guide whenever you see one that peaks your curiosity!

Contests & Sponsors
Last but not least, back in July we started a monthly contest giving
our viewers a chance to pick up a little something for free. Our contests would not
be possible without the support from our sponsors, so I thought the two should go
hand in hand. A big thanks goes out to all our sponsors for all of their support.
Without them, JTA would not be able to exist. Alliance
Collectibles helped keep our ROTS guide
flowing nicely and up-to-date. Andrews
Toyz started sponsoring our Gentle
Giant guide
this year, providing us with the latest Gentle Giant items. The Autograph
Bounty Hunter provided us with contest prizes each month. So, when you get a
chance, be sure to visit our sponsors to see what they have to offer. They are all
constantly sending us news with some pretty sweet deals.

The grand finale this year
is a partnership contest with Sideshow
Collectibles for a free 1/4 Scale Premium
Format Luke Skywalker Figure! You can't beat that!

2006 and Beyond
If you thought 2005 sounded busy, we don't plan on letting up! We will continue with
our daily Visual Guide updates, bringing you both the new and the old. We will be
expanding every section we launched in 2005, and launching a few new sections along
the way. Our forums continue to grow every day, so if you want a nice Star Wars community
to join, be sure to head over to the Jedi
Temple War Room and check out what we have
to offer. Toy Fair is just around the corner as well, and JTA plans on being there
with full up-to-the-minute coverage! Stay tuned...